Heart on a Leash by Alanna Martin Hearts of Alaska #1 Contemporary Romance Release date: 04/27/2021 by Berkley Excerpt: Ever since she was little, Taylor had been determined that-in her six-year-old self's words-she was going to be a "business lady." Little Taylor had devoted countless hours to making her Barbie dolls into perfect "business ladies," which had mainly meant they wore stylish clothes, worked in tall buildings, and bossed people around. Her understanding had expanded as Continue Reading
Blog Tour Excerpt: Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
Book Summary: HONEY GIRL (Park Row Books; February 23, 2021; $17.99) by Morgan Rogers is a stunning #ownvoices debut, a charming, lyrical, and introspective romantic coming-of-age story about Grace Porter – millennial, Black woman, astronomy Ph.D. – who wakes up after a wild night in Vegas married to a woman she doesn’t know. Strait-laced and structured all her life, Porter now faces life without a plan for the first time ever. Between her disappointed military father, the Continue Reading
Excerpt: In Case You Missed It by Lindsey Kelk
Blurb: When Ros comes home after three years away, she’s ready to pick up with life exactly where she left it. But her friends have moved on, her parents have rekindled their romance, and her bedroom is now a garden shed. All of a sudden, she’s swept up in nostalgia for the way things were. Then her phone begins to ping, with messages from her old life. Including one number she thought she’d erased for good – the man who broke her heart. Is this her second chance at one big love? Continue Reading
Hump Day Excerpt: Can’t Help Falling by Cara Bastone
Today we have an excerpt from Can't Help Falling by Cara Bastone, available now. Cara's debut Just a Heartbeat Away was out in June and will be on my list of favorites of 2020. I think her voice is fantastic and is a new auto-buy/read author for me. Here's the blurb for Can't Help Falling. The more you resist, the deeper you’ll fallSerafine St. Romain doesn’t need her psychic powers to know she’s no longer in Tyler Leshuski’s good graces. True, she did tear him to pieces when he asked Continue Reading
Excerpt: Just Like That by Cole McCade
Just Like That by Cole McCade is available now at all e-tailers. “Why are you attracted to me?” Fox asked. And Summer laughed. He laughed, quick and startled, a short light thing that made Fox think of mayflies startled into taking flight. Wide blue eyes darted to him, then away—very firmly away, Summer turning his head to stare across the grass, toward the stark cliff edge that led down the other side of the slope, into dense forest. His mouth pressed to his upraised shoulder, Continue Reading
Excerpt: Hate Crush by Angelina Lopez
Make sure you check back later today for a review of Hate Crush Setup: Tensions have reached a flashpoint between Princesa Sofia and rock star Aish Salinger, and all the emotions the millionaire winemaker has been trying to subsume while performing a fake relationship with a man she hates – a boy who broke her heart – come to a head. Sofia storms down to the darkness of her cathedral wine cellar and Aish, desperate for her love but angry, too, follows her. “What I did to you was the Continue Reading
Excerpt: The Hideaway Inn by Philip William Stover
Author Introduction I’m going to lean into the Smexy brand here and share my skinny dipping scene. What is smarter or sexier than skinny dipping? When you don’t wear a swimsuit you don’t have to worry about drying it so that has the added bonus of not needing to do laundry which is probably good for the environment. So all that is firmly in the smart column. Now for an M/M romance with a skinny dipping scene in a crystal clear spring-fed stream we are going to have to deal with a word I like Continue Reading
Excerpt: VARIABLE ONSET by Layla Reyne
Intro In Variable Onset, (available now) a standalone m/m romantic mystery, a prickly FBI instructor meets his match—and undercover husband—in the brash, flirtatious former student who made his early professor days hell… and who always had the hots for teacher. With their cold case suddenly heating up, will things get too hot to handle, in their fake relationship and in their investigation? Read on for a sexy excerpt! Sexy Excerpt “I’m sorry,” Lincoln said, slumping back in Continue Reading
Excerpt: Temper by Chantal Fernando
Blurb from Temper by Chantal Fernando, available now. Every year, the hot, tatted biker comes into Abbie’s bar, orders whiskey, and asks her out. Every year, Abbie turns him down. After all, dating a man that goes by Temper seems like a really bad idea, no matter how attracted she is to him. But this year is different. Abbie’s different. Older, wiser, and tired of being stuck behind the bar in a sleepy town. This year, she’s ready for whatever adventure the sexy but sweet biker has in Continue Reading
Excerpt from Hostile Pursuit by June Rushdan and a giveaway!!
The new Hard Core Justice Thriller series is about US Marshals who are thrust into extraordinary circumstances, where everything goes wrong while trying to protect their witnesses. And of course, they fall in love along the way, but can they survive to have a happily-ever-after? In this excerpt, US Marshal Nick McKenna has been protecting Lori Carpenter for the past year. She is supposed to testify in twenty-four hours, but assassins have been sent by a drug cartel to silence her. They’ve Continue Reading